A question I often get asked, but never know how to answer, is, “Are there any good restaurants you would recommend?” Unless it’s a close friend whose taste and budget I am well acquainted with, I find it extremely difficult to offer such advice. In Hong Kong, there are just way too many choices and […]

It’s a dirty topic that people usually avoid in polite company, but there are some disgusting restaurant bathrooms in this city. You might assume I’m just talking about the hosed-down lavatories of dilapidated cha chaan teng, but no, this applies to restaurants in trendy areas, too.An establishment might offer incredible food with award-winning glitzy design, […]

A tiny beach restaurant in an isolated South African fishing village was named the best in the world on Monday.Chef Kobus van der Merwe, who only began to properly cook when he was 30, forages every day for ingredients on the wild Atlantic shore of the Western Cape near his Wolfgat restaurant, where he also […]